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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: weak functions in some drivers
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 19:13:15 +0100
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On 6/21/2016 4:01 PM, Damjan Marion (damarion) wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20

...

>=20
> What is not clear to me is motivation to use weak here instead of simpl=
y using CONFIG_RTE_I40E_INC_VECTOR
> macro to exclude stubs in i40e_rxtx.c. It will make library smaller and=
 avoid issues like this one
> which are quite hard to troubleshoot.

Since this issue seen in fd.io, I didn't investigated more, but I don't
want to clock your valid question, this is an attempt to resurrect the
question ...

>=20
> BTW Looks like same issue is happening with fm10k driver.
>=20